This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity … creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge are interrelated. Yet, a comprehensive … understanding is still lacking concerning the interface of all of those variables: knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and … relationship between knowledge and growth on one hand, and entrepreneurship and growth on the other. Similarly, more profound …

and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … multinationals contribute to innovation, technology and knowledge dispersion. The distribution of knowledge investments is uneven …This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation …

Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the … formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational … decision making while knowledge is a form of (non-material) capital to be used as a resource in the transformation of different …

Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused … viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary current knowledge-based growth models have re-introduced the notion of … the entrepreneur, however stripped of its most typical characteristics, and the diffusion of knowledge is kept exogenous …